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I think that you should add this book to your list up there...It's a whole book on using the imagination, why people have trouble imagining clear images, different types, and basically everything asked about on this board every 4 milliseconds..

Hi Tom, how's it going? If only there was a Briggsy Scholarship, I'd be delighted to give it to you, but alas ....
As of this week, however, there IS a Briggsy googlepages site with lots of juicy colour links .. let me know what you think.

Hi Tom, how's it going? If only there was a Briggsy Scholarship, I'd be delighted to give it to you, but alas ....
As of this week, however, there IS a Briggsy googlepages site with lots of juicy colour links .. let me know what you think.

*eagerly awaits next week to see the creation of the Briggsy Scholarship*
Going good, still learning at a nice pace. Thanks for this new batch of links, going to spend a few days with them.

Thought I'd bump this old thread for anyone who missed it first time with a few gems from the apparently moribund Digital Library of India. I spotted some great looking titles there, but now none of the links seem to be working, for me at least. Anyone know what's happened to it?

Anyway, here's the majority of what I managed to get (by batch downloading separate jpg pages), compiled as pdfs to share. A few more to come still, when I get time to compile and upload them.

Please direct any questions regarding copyright to the Digital Library of India!

Well, presumably they comply with the copyright policy of the Digital library of India, such as it is. There seems to be no stipulation by the DLI against reposting their files elsewhere, so there should be no problem from that direction. Whether third parties might hold that the DLI erred in posting some of the material in the first place is of course another question. I will keep checking to see if our moderators think that any of these links should be removed.

The scans of drawings are awful, however, and the text is very opinionated and superficial: "...to Rembrandt beauty is the antithesis between the triviality of the inner envelope and the inner radiance." Oh yeah? Still, not bad for being free.

I think that you should add this book to your list up there...It's a whole book on using the imagination, why people have trouble imagining clear images, different types, and basically everything asked about on this board every 4 milliseconds..

I just wanted to warn people not to waste their time by reading "Training of the Imagination", as it is not a work book on training the imagination, as you would assume by the title. It's basically a speech from a school master to other teachers telling them that they should encourage students to think for themselves rather then just have them memorize facts.

"Essay on Creative Imagination" is of only marginal interest, it is aimed at psychologist, and is of little practical use to artists. Also "why people have trouble imagining clear images" is never answered, what is given instead are three image types, in other words the level of detail in a memory or mental image, if you're curious they are: complete, incomplete, and schematic. The first part of the book has some interesting ideas, from what I could understand, but there isn't much of anything in parts two and three.
The gist of it is: Experiences form the raw material for the imagination. In unimaginative people these experiences are stored as rote memory, in imaginative people they are distorted, taken apart, and modified to varying degrees. The principle intellectual factor in imaginative people is thinking by analogy, for example an s is like a snake because they're both curvy, or a hand can resemble a gun, and onto more obscure and subjective likenesses. There is no "creative imagination" per se but instead a process which arises from first a want/need, which then follows a search for a solution, and finally a solution or a failure.